How Russian exile Leonid Nevzlin is taking on the Kremlin

Leonid Nevzlin, co-founder of Yukos, is waging a high-profile court battle to win back the oil company's assets seized by the Kremlin.

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Kremlin critic Leonid Nevzlin

In 2003, Leonid Nevzlin left Russia shortly before his former partner at Yukos Oil, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was jailed for fraud. "He was the one who got away," says Forbes. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, spent ten years in a Siberian prison camp before being "pardoned" in 2013. Nevzlin headed to Israel, and in 2008 was sentenced in his absence to life imprisonment by a Russian court, charged with "organising" five contract murders.

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